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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Mahogany
« on: October 07, 2014, 11:10:43 pm »
Has anyone used Mahogany for a bow? How about in a laminate?
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Offline Bloodhound

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2014, 11:55:39 pm »
Tried a board of it once, terrible result, could have just been the peice I guess. Thing snappped super easy.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2014, 12:12:31 am »
I've used it for risers and overlays.   I do have a primitive crossbow made fully of mahogany but there lots of different mahoganies.
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2014, 12:16:20 am »
I ask because I have available to me more than I could ever use. Boards that is.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2014, 12:24:44 am »
Probably not but unless you try you'll never know.
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Offline jeffp51

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2014, 12:37:18 am »
makes nice furniture. . .maybe it would be better to use it for what it is good for.  Seems like I read something about the mountain mahogany that grows around here being good for bows, but I could be wrong.
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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2014, 03:30:06 am »
It's ok for thin cores.
Chances are what you have available is sapelle.
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2014, 09:03:48 am »
It is almost white when sanded, but goes back to a dark orange brown when oiled or varnished. A cabinet shop in a nearby town leaves all their excess on the side of the road. Hundreds of board feet a week. Some 1x2's and some as thin as a 32nd. It kind of has a bad smell when being sanded, but the wood alone is kind of a spicy smell.
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2014, 11:55:30 am »
Id for sure be grabbing some, but not using it for bows
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #9 on: October 09, 2014, 01:24:34 am »
I have about 25 feet of 1x2, and 40 or so of thinner pieces. Some are about an eighth. I also got some White Oak, and some cedar.
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Offline mullet

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2014, 11:52:06 am »
I've made a bow from Eastern Mohogany,(china berry). It was a pretty slow shooting bow. Very dead feeling piece of wood.
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Offline loefflerchuck

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2014, 12:47:50 pm »
Mountain mahogany is one of the heaviest woods in the US. Go out and spend a day looking for a tree strait enough for a bow. Lots of it around. Reg mahogany is not even close
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Offline DarkSoul

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2014, 07:18:24 pm »
I suggest we use the scientific name for any wood that has a vernacular name that carries 'mahogany' in it.
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #13 on: October 09, 2014, 09:17:31 pm »
well that counts me out. It is brown, and smells "Spicy"? Here is a photo of the pile last Saturday. Some of the pieces are over 12 feet long.  Tyke put a long string on a 1 1/2 square piece of white oak and pulled it to 26 before it broke, I may have to try some.
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Offline SeanStuart

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Re: Mahogany
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2014, 10:10:04 pm »
wow, that would make some interesting glued-up boards for table tops, boxes, etc.
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